Selecting the Best: Volunteer Work Experience Versus Paid Work Experience

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonya K. Frevert ◽  
Ann H. Huffman ◽  
Heather Thompson ◽  
Jaime Henning
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Paid Work

O Significado do trabalho e do não trabalhar na perspectiva masculina: Uma análise Junguiana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Liviano Wahba ◽  
Ísis Fabiana de Souza Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Trajectory

Using Analytical Psychology as a theoretical basis, the present study aimed at clarifying and understanding the meanings that the man, who does not work, nor has an income of his own, attributes to himself, to his situation and to the social expectations related to working. Another objective was to elucidate which would be, in that case, the existing factors of investment and/or disinvestment in the work. Therefore, the study explored subjective aspects, using the qualitative approach and employing the Life History interview as a research tool. The research included four participants living in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The inclusion criteria required that the participants be men, in the age group of approximate 30 years, without any paid work nor any type of income for at least five months, and financially dependent on their family members or spouses. The results show that the perception of work is an elementary configuration in the life trajectory. Work may signify a constant obligation — an imposition that endures — or be a meaning in transformation — leading to resignifications. The association between work and identity affirmation — as well as conscious and unconscious motivations — stands out. The research also made it possible to infer the existence of complexes resulting from the work experience. The survey of the subjective experiences linked to an increasingly prevailing conjuncture in the current society points to the intense affective load related to work. In this context, the assistance of the clinical psychologist becomes relevant.

Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform-Based Food Delivery

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052094963
Author(s):  
Ruth Milkman ◽  
Luke Elliott-Negri ◽  
Kathleen Griesbach ◽  
Adam Reich
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Food Shopping ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Original Survey

Drawing on original survey and interview data on platform-based food delivery workers, we deploy an intersectional lens to analyze the ways in which the white working-class women who predominate in this sector of the gig economy interpret their work experience. With a focus on the gender–class nexus, we explore the reasons why these workers, especially mothers and other caregivers, self-select into this sector. These include: scheduling flexibility, which facilitates balancing paid work and family care; the opportunity to use previously unpaid food shopping skills to generate income, a neoliberal form of “wages for housework”; and the emotional rewards of serving elderly and disabled customers who cannot easily shop for themselves. Although these workers embrace the traditional gender division of labor and normative femininity, at the same time they express strong class resentment of both the companies they work for and the class and gender entitlements of their most privileged customers.

How the lifecycle hypothesis explains volunteering during retirement

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 1360-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARIE SHERMAN ◽  
TAL SHAVIT
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
Lifecycle Model ◽  
Work First

ABSTRACTWe suggest two supplements to Franco Modigliani's lifecycle model in order to explain why people who have retired from paid work choose either to start volunteering or increase the amount of time they devote to volunteer work. First, total consumption consists of both the material and immaterial products of work. While people can save their income in order to maintain an even level of material consumption, they unable to save a portion of the immaterial product. Second, at the statutory retirement age people retire only from paid work. We argue that older people substitute paid work for volunteering due to their inherent need to maintain immaterial consumption during retirement.

Rethinking Volunteering as a Form of Unpaid Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Overgaard
Keyword(s):  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
Work Choices

This article aims to problematize the ways in which volunteering is presently conceptualized, theorized, and studied by positioning it as a form of unpaid labor. Over six focal points, the article highlights areas that deserve closer scrutiny: the question of when volunteering is work; the formal–informal and paid–unpaid distinctions of work; the notion of “choice,” especially volunteering as the lack of paid work choices; the assumption that volunteer work is similar to informal work; and a recognition that volunteering consists of many different forms of activities, not just one.

scholarly journals LA INTERCULTURALIDAD A TRAVÉS DE UN VOLUNTARIADO INTERNACIONAL EN LA PENÍNSULA DE SANTA ELENA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fernando Guevara Gavilanes
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Santa Elena ◽  
International Volunteer

Partiendo de la riqueza histórica, cultural, paisajista y actividades económicas de la provincia de Santa Elena, el autor analiza la gran riqueza ancestral de la Península y las posibilidades para desarrollar un programa de voluntariado internacional denominado “Peninsula Volunteers”, basado en su experiencia como ex voluntario del programa de intercambio “Canadá Word Youth” y ex participante del programa “Center for Cultural Interchange” en USA; está dirigido a estudiantes extranjeros que deseen aprender español, vivir la interculturalidad desde una comuna y tener una experiencia laboral en los paisajes de la fascinante Península. Palabras Clave: interculturalidad, voluntariado, experiencia laboral. ABSTRACT Based on the historical, cultural and landscaped and economic activities of the province of Santa Elena, the author analyzes the vast ancestral wealth of the peninsula and the possibilities for developing an international volunteer program called "Peninsula Volunteers" , based on his experience as former volunteer exchange program " Youth Canada Word " and former participant of the " Center for Cultural interchange " program in the USA; It is aimed at foreign students who want to learn Spanish , live interculturality from a commune and have work experience in the fascinating landscapes of the Peninsula. Keywords: multiculturalism, volunteer work experience. Recibido: noviembre de 2015Aprobado: febrero de 2016

KPMG cuts through complexity for young recruits

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vocational Qualification ◽  
Talented People ◽  
Star Program ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Tier 3

Purpose – Describe how KPMG in the UK has expanded its school-leaver and apprenticeship schemes to give more young people the chance to experience working life in the areas of auditing, taxation and business advice. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the reasons for the programs, the form they take and the successes they are achieving. Findings – Rreveals that KPMG welcomed 71 school-leavers on to its 12-month paid work-experience program last year, increasing the intake from 25 candidates the year before. The company also welcomed 32 new apprentices to its business-support academy scheme, following a successful pilot involving seven apprentices the previous year. Practical implications – Describes how the Star program offers talented school-leavers who have just completed their A-levels or equivalent the opportunity to gain 12 months of paid work experience, while the apprenticeship program offers 16- to 24-year-old apprentices the opportunity to spend 13 months working in various functions across the firm. Apprentices obtain first-hand work experience and exposure to the business while completing a National Vocational Qualification (advanced tier 3) in business and administration through the firm’s training partner, BPP Training. Social implications – Explains that the drive to recruit trainees into KPMG is part of its long-term recruitment strategy to attract talented people from every walk of life. Originality/value – Points out how KPM’s programs are helping young people to fulfill their potential and succeed in a company that they would not necessarily have had the opportunity to join through conventional means.

scholarly journals Paid Work alongside Higher Education Studies as an Investment in Human Capital

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajnalka Fényes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Financial Return ◽  
Capital Conversion

In this study, using a database of higher education student surveys, we analyse the motivations behind paid work through cluster analysis and reveal which variables influence them. We hypothesise that working while studying is also an investment in human capital. We research to what extent students are motivated to work alongside their studies by the possibility of acquiring work experience and future financial return. Furthermore, we examine whether Bourdieuan capital conversion is characteristic of students. We found that acquiring work experience was a more important motive behind paid work than acquiring cultural and social capital and the possibility of capital conversion. We also found that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are primarily motivated to seek employment by the prospect of short-term income. It is a significant finding that even if the students’ jobs are not related to their studies, they still have the goal of gaining professional experience and increasing their capital, which implies that they consider many of these jobs to be an investment in human capital (even if it does not yield a return in the future; see the theoretical section). According to our policy recommendation, higher education institutions should offer students more study-related employment opportunities in the examined Central European region, while employers should also attribute a greater value to the professional experience acquired alongside higher education studies.

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